“The Jury has the right to judge both the law and the fact in controversy.” That statement was penned not by some modern-day political theorist, but by John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. It did not reflect some quaint or offbeat ideology, but rather, the consensus of opinion at the founding of our nation. Our Founding Fathers understood that the constitutional republic they had crafted was a fragile thing. Without the proper safeguards, it could in time fall prey to tyranny masquerading as law. They recognized that one of the most essential of safeguards was the power vested in the common citizen through the jury box.

There is an established order and protocol for most things and efforts to always bring about more total control through more order and protocol. This is why so many of the largest human organizations and institutions are so bureaucratic, so hive-like and so hierarchical.

A recent Gallup poll and a poll done shortly after 9/11 shed light on how healthcare’s hyperinflation and under-performance is fueling the Trump and Sanders phenomena. Financial anxiety and a general sense that things aren’t working sow the seed for movements. On the bright side, the horrible under-performance of how healthcare gets purchased and delivered has caused a few positive responses already

My purpose today is to demonstrate that the troll should not be so EFFECTIVE. I want to show primarily what enables that troll to hinder you and me, and also generally what each of us can do about it. Because, quite frankly, as with the apparent bully problem affecting children in US public schools these days, there can NEVER be enough collectivized and institutional resources to bring on the whole more satisfactory results. NEVER.